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I'm reading Brian Greenes' "The Fabric of the Cosmos" and I'm about a third the way through it. So he's up to to talking about and dealing with Time. This whole issue of what time is, is really giving me the S**ts ! The topic deals with why time seems to flow only one way, despite the fact that mathematically and that the theories of Relativity say the processes can go forward or back. He uses the analogy of an egg rolling off a kitchen bench, and how come we never see it unsplatter, reform and un-fall back up on to the bench.
To my way of thinking, even if you could run time backwards. Why would the fundemental laws of nature stop working the the way they appear to have done up to the present time. Seems to me the egg cannot know about time, all it can know is that is pulled towards the center of the earth by gravity. My thing is that every event or occurance in the Universe, no matter how big or how small, is a result of a series of events governed by a force(s) of nature i.e Gravity, Electromagnetism, the nuclear forces etc. etc. That time itself it not a force, and brings nothing to the understanding of the make up of the elements in the universe, or mechanisms behind the events we see in the universe. I don't understand why it's even a question in the physics world. Or am I just